{"id":29984,"date":"2016-11-02T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=29984"},"modified":"2016-11-02T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T13:42:06","slug":"linkedin-joins-the-government-for-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/linkedin-joins-the-government-for-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn joins the Government for Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leading global professional network LinkedIn today said it has signed an agreement with the human resource development ministry to create more job opportunities for Indian students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the MoU, LinkedIn\u2019s \u2018Placements\u2019 product will be adopted by all Indian colleges affiliated with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the company said in a release issued here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29985\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/interview-1.jpg\" alt=\"online news portal\" width=\"993\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/interview-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/interview-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Placements\u2019 provides a level-playing field for all students, regardless of their location or college and allows them to take an online assessment test, which gives them direct access to thousands of openings in 35 top corporates in India, it added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited to work with the HRD ministry and AICTE to help students get greater access to the \u2018Placements\u2019 product. Our objective with \u2018Placements\u2019 is to help the country\u2019s best talent get access to job opportunities, regardless of their location. We hope to bring students closer to their dream jobs through this platform,\u201d LinkedIn India Country Manager and Head of Product Akshay Kothari said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29986\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mayor-RCHS-Interviews-WS.jpg\" alt=\"online news portal\" width=\"1007\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mayor-RCHS-Interviews-WS.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Mayor-RCHS-Interviews-WS-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2019Placements\u2019 was piloted in November 2015 and then LinkedIn opened the product in September 2016 to students at all colleges and universities in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In less than eight weeks from the launch, over two lakh students registered for the product and there were over 1.2 million job applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading global professional network LinkedIn today said it has signed an agreement with the human resource development ministry to create more job opportunities for Indian students. As part of the MoU, LinkedIn\u2019s \u2018Placements\u2019 product will be adopted by all Indian colleges affiliated with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the company said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[12652,12647,12648,12653,2339,12654,12655,12650,12649,12646,8481,12644,12651,12656,12645],"class_list":["post-29984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-1-2-million-job","tag-affiliated","tag-aicte","tag-applications","tag-government","tag-government-affairs-jobs-india","tag-government-relations-jobs","tag-hrd-ministry","tag-india-council-for-technical-education","tag-indian-colleges","tag-jobs","tag-linkedin","tag-linkedin-india-country","tag-linkedin-jobs","tag-placements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/392D04A300000578-3826081-image-a-30_1475795552379.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}